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A kitchen maid’s secret fuels an empire and a life of ambition.
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    848 pages

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    1 October 2009

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Summary

Now a major new Channel 4 series starring Brenda Blethyn (Vera) and Jessica Reynolds (Outlander) from OBE-honoured, award-winning author Barbara Taylor Bradford

One girl. One secret. One unstoppable ascent.

In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is sixteen, single and pregnant.

By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to the glittering cities of Ame…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780007321421
ISBN-10:0007321422
Author:Barbara Taylor Bradford
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:HarperCollins
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:848
Edition:40th
Release Date:1 October 2009
Weight:560g
Dimensions:46mm x 129mm x 198mm
Series:The Harte Family Saga
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A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford - ISBN: 9780007321421
129 × 198 mm
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Critics Review

‘An extravagant, absorbing novel of love, courage, ambition, war, death and passion.‘New York Times

‘An extravagant, absorbing novel of love, courage, ambition, war, death and passion.’
New York Times
‘A mighty saga. Little has been so riveting since Gone With the Wind’ Evening News
‘A long, satisfying novel of money, power, passion and revenge, set against the sweep of 20th-century history.’
Los Angeles Times
‘Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the world’s best at spinning yarns’ Guardian

About The Author

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor Bradford was born in Leeds, and by the age of twenty was an editor and columnist on Fleet Street. Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring worldwide bestseller. Her novels have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide in more than ninety countries and forty languages, and ten mini-series and television movies have been made of her books. She lives in New York City with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford.

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